eden

n 1: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: {paradise},

{nirvana}, {heaven}, {promised land}, {Shangri-la}]

2: a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the

Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit

from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were

driven from their paradise (the fall of man) [syn: {Eden},

{Garden of Eden}]

Eden

A concurrent, {object-oriented}, distributed {operating

system} and language, based on {remote procedure call}. It

has both {synchronous} and {asynchronous} {message passing}.

["The Eden System: A Technical Review", G. Almes et al, IEEE

Trans Soft Eng SE-11(1):43-59 (Jan 1985)].